Gerben Zaagsma - modern Jewish, digital and public historyhttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/
enOpening remarks: From Tablet to Tablet – workshop Jewish Studies & Digital Humanities, Hamburg, 4-6 September 2017http://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/07-09-2017/opening-remarks-tablet-tablet-%E2%80%93-workshop-jewish-studies-digital-humanities-hamburg-4
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>*** This is the written version of opening remarks I gave at <a href="http://www.igdj-hh.de/news-leser-152/tagung-from-tablet-to-tablet.html" target="_blank">From Tablet to Tablet</a>, a workshop on Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities supported by the <a href="http://rothschildfoundation.eu/" target="_blank">Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe</a> in co-operation with the <a href="http://www.igdj-hh.de/IGDJ-home.html" target="_blank">Institute for the History of the German Jews</a> that took place in Hamburg between 4-6 September 2017. Several introductiory blog posts and discussions with participants where posted on the <a href="http://yerusha.eu/?page_id=605" target="_blank">Yerusha blog</a>. </em></p>
<p><em>My warmfelt thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/sinemadar" target="_blank">Sinem Adar</a> for comments on an earlier version. I have drawn in some parts upon an earlier <a href="https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/abstract/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.9344/" target="_blank">article On Digital History </a>published in 2013 as part of a <a href="https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/515/volume/128/issue/4/" target="_blank">thematic issue of the BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review on digital history</a>.</em></p>
<p><em>These remarks are intended as a discussion piece so feedback and comments are most welcome!</em></p>
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My new book <em>Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War</em> is out now with <a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jewish-volunteers-the-international-brigades-and-the-spanish-civil-war-9781472505491/" target="_blank">Bloomsbury Academic</a>.</p>
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The book's introduction can be <a href="http://gerbenzaagsma.org/sites/default/files/Zaagsma-Jewish_volunteers_Introduction.pdf">downloaded for free here</a>, and a <a href="http://bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/Marketing.aspx?ID=JKMKTG21APR17&amp;ISBN=9781472513793&amp;sts=b" target="_blank">preview is available here</a>. More information can be found <strong><a href="http://gerbenzaagsma.org/jewishvolunteers">here</a></strong> and on the <strong><a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jewish-volunteers-the-international-brigades-and-the-spanish-civil-war-9781472505491/" target="_blank">Bloomsbury Academic website</a></strong>.</p>
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Bloomsbury has provided a temporary 35% discount when ordering through their website, using the code JVIBSCW35.</p>
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<em>Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War discusses the participation of volunteers of Jewish descent in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, focusing particularly on the establishment of the Naftali Botwin Company, a Jewish military unit that was created in the Polish Dombrowski Brigade. </em></p></div></div></div>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 10:11:00 +0000gerben zaagsma102 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgBook Introduction: From ‘Chosen Fighters of the Jewish People’ to Jewish Resistance Fightershttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/20-02-2017/book-introduction-%E2%80%98chosen-fighters-jewish-people%E2%80%99-jewish-resistance-fighters
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<p>The book will be published on 6 April. More information can be found <strong><a href="http://gerbenzaagsma.org/jewishvolunteers">here</a></strong> and on the <strong><a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jewish-volunteers-the-international-brigades-and-the-spanish-civil-war-9781472505491/" target="_blank">Bloomsbury Academic website</a></strong>. </p>
<p><strong>Edit 14 March</strong>: Bloomsbury has provided a temporary 35% discount when ordering through their website, using the code JVIBSCW35.</p>
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</div></div></div>Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:05:25 +0000gerben zaagsma113 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgDigital history and the hidden archivehttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/19-04-2015/digital-history-and-hidden-archive
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Two months ago an important conference took place at the European University Institute in Florence on <a href="http://www.eui.eu/SeminarsAndEvents/Events/2015/February/PublicHistoryandtheMedia.aspx">Public History and the Media</a>. Exploring a variety of forms of public history, the second day was devoted to the topic of ‘digital public history’. While the links between the two fields are fairly obvious they are of course not the same. As one participant put it: “Digital History is not the same as Public History *but* Public History needs Digital History”. </p>
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<span>Various projects that were presented or referenced during this day explored ways in which the public can be engaged in, contribute to, and co-author history. Thus the </span><a href="https://phillyhistorytruck.wordpress.com/">Philadelphia Public History Truck</a><span>, “a mobile museum project which partners with Philly neighborhood grassroots organizations to explore local history”, enables new voices and audiences to be heard and engage in (local) history. The </span><a href="http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu">Europeana 1914-1918</a><span> provides an excellent example of enaging the public to create a new user-generated online archive/museum. Digtal history functions in an enabling way here: new voices/audiences and user-generated materials empower ‘the public’ in various ways. But clearly these are also new forms of creating history. </span></p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The slides for an introductory lecture on Search and Data Mining that I gave at the University of Luxembourg on 11 December 2014 <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/gerbenzaagsma/20141211-seminar-luxembourg-zaagsma" target="_blank">are now online</a>.</p>
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</div></div></div>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:23:12 +0000gerben zaagsma106 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgThe diaries of Anne Frank. Research—Translations—Critical Editionhttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/projects/diaries-anne-frank-research%E2%80%94translations%E2%80%94critical-edition
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I currently work as a research fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg at the Georg August Universität Göttingen on the project <a href="http://lichtenberg-kolleg.org/2013/12/09/anne-frank-diaries/">The diaries of Anne Frank. Research—Translations—Critical Edition</a>. The project is a collaboration between the Lichtenberg Kolleg at the Georg August Universität Göttingen and the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt. It involves a new historical-critical edition of the diaries in Dutch, English and German as well as an accompanying multi-author research monograph. I am responsible for the annotations of the new edition as well as involved in planning the monograph for which I will contribute a chapter on wartime Yiddish diaries.</p>
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A special issue of the <em>BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review</em> on Digital History has just been published. I guest-edited the articles section and wrote the introduction. The issue <a href="http://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/515/volume/128/issue/4/" target="_blank">can be found here</a>.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>My report on the conference jüdische Geschichte digital/ jewish digital history (Hamburg, 13-14 June 2013) is now <a href="http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=5011" target="_blank">online on H-Soz-u-Kult</a>. </p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:26:29 +0000gerben zaagsma93 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgNew article out in L'histoire contemporaine à l'ère numérique/ Contemporary History in the Digital Agehttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/23-07-2013/new-article-out-lhistoire-contemporaine-%C3%A0-l%C3%A8re-num%C3%A9rique-contemporary-history
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A new book entitled <a href="http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&amp;seitentyp=produkt&amp;pk=76801&amp;concordeid=574048" target="_blank">L'histoire contemporaine à l'ère numérique/ Contemporary History in the Digital Age</a> was published with Peter Lang recently. It contains articles from the <a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.lu" target="_blank">Digital Humanities Luxembourg (DHLU)</a> 2009 and 2012 conferences (see also <a href="http://www.cvce.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=9442e254-4547-4c27-b4af-d5a4742eef78&amp;groupId=10136" target="_blank">this call for papers for the upcoming december 2013 conference</a> on the theme of <em>Reading historical sources in the digital age</em>).</p>
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</p></div></div></div>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:14:49 +0000gerben zaagsma90 at http://gerbenzaagsma.orgIt’s the context stupidhttp://gerbenzaagsma.org/blog/14-07-2013/it%E2%80%99s-context-stupid
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On July 9, 2013, a conference took place in the Jewish Museum in Berlin entitled <a href="http://www.ehri-project.eu/drupal/public-history-holocaust" target="_blank">Public History of the Holocaust - Historical Research in the Digital Age</a>. One of the issues brought up in the closing forum discussion was the loss of context in working with online digital archives and/or libraries, a point made by Stefanie Schüler-Springorum who used the example of doing newspapers research to illustrate it. Having used this example often to illustrate the methodological challenges of doing history in the digital age, I was very happy to hear it being addressed in the forum. For loss of context, or loss of awareness of context, when using and working with digital resources is a key issue that is in dire need of more discussion by historians, whether they describe themselves as digital or not. </p></div></div></div>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:52:34 +0000gerben zaagsma89 at http://gerbenzaagsma.org